Quotes About Stock Prices

#1. Stocks always go down much faster than they go up. That's why it's called a crash. People who put their money into the stocks will find, all of a sudden, that stock prices are no longer being supported by the debt leveraging that's been holding them up.

Michael Hudson

#2. A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.

Charlie Munger

#3. Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#4. The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

Alex Berenson

#5. Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

Nancy Dunnan

#6. Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed
humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

Matt Taibbi

#7. Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Merton Miller

#8. If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Jeff Bezos

#9. There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

Irving Fisher

#10. Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Irving Fisher

#11. Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

Benjamin Graham

#12. When stock prices are rising, it's called "momentum investing"; when they are falling, it's called "panic".

Paul Krugman

#13. Unknown Assassin, says the headline. Blanche skips over the details she already knows. How bizarre to see what she lived through last night turned into an item tucked between stock prices and Crazy Horse whupping the army at Little Bighorn.

Emma Donoghue

#14. It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

Burton Malkiel

#15. I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

Mark Cuban

#16. Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values

George Soros

#17. A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.

Ben Bernanke

#18. Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you're wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

Charlie Munger

#19. Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.

William Poundstone

#20. When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

Greg Ip

#21. Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

Timothy Noah

#22. As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

T. Boone Pickens

#23. I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

Bill Gates

#24. Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each..

Charles Jaffe

#25. Valuation premiums of quality companies often reflect some degree of expected operational outperformance, but actual performance tends to exceed expectations over time. Stock prices thus tend to undervalue quality companies.

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#26. The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise.

Peter Mallouk

#27. However, today most of the transactions are performed electronically. The stock market is simply the channel that links buyers and sellers for easier transactions where prices are decided between two parties as well.

Brayden Tan

#28. Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

J. D. Hayworth

#29. I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?

Charles Schwab

#30. If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

Michael Hudson

#31. When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.

Michael Hudson

#32. The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we'd all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to afford our rather expensive services.

Douglas Adams

#33. In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

James Grant

#34. You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

Daniel Kahneman

#35. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Amah Lambert

#36. Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

James Buchan

#37. You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

Warren Buffett